{"id":129574,"date":"2016-01-30T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/its-not-just-about-calories.html"},"modified":"2016-02-01T06:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:34:36","slug":"its-not-just-about-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/its-not-just-about-calories.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s not just about calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dagnabbit, calorie counting is simple and straightforward for dieting. It&#39;s highly irksome that the world doesn&#39;t operate that way.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, apparently my preference for rare meat is a good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mosaicscience.com\/story\/why-calorie-broken'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/WURPGuAbtXAdiLthQDYz1GyN7i_RW3IF-5ycLCokOobdduyzqvkAXS5vY2v_OG1Q8hfqelZyoqJKLR3wcGJiuUn9aIEss4YP4-8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mosaicscience.com\/story\/why-calorie-broken'>Why the calorie is broken<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCalories consumed minus calories burned: it&rsquo;s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn&rsquo;t work. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod investigate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MBGY7BoYV9r'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dagnabbit, calorie counting is simple and straightforward for dieting. It&#39;s highly irksome that the world doesn&#39;t operate that way. On the bright side, apparently my preference for rare meat is a good thing. Why the calorie is broken Calories consumed minus calories burned: it&rsquo;s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/its-not-just-about-calories.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#039;s not just about calories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science","category-weight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14752,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/weekly-calorie-report.html","url_meta":{"origin":129574,"position":0},"title":"Weekly Calorie Report","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-May-09 11:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"From my tracking, I needed out (as of Friday) 971 calories below budget (budget designed for me to lose about a pound a week). 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